At the best of times, Pakistan cricket is a hotbed of controversy, conspiracy and allegations and counter-allegations. At a time when the national team has just lost a Test match against Australia in Australia that it had no business losing, the normal chaos is multiplied by ten.

The latest is the case of Kamran Akmal. Kamran, by any cricketing reckoning, had a shocker behind the stumps at Sydney. However, it now appears possible that in spite of the PCB explicitly flying Sarfaraz Ahmed over to Australia so that he could replace Kamran, that might not happen for the third Test.

Pakistan cricket is a hotbed of controversy, conspiracy and allegations and counter-allegations. At a time when the national team has just lost a Test match against Australia in Australia that it had no business losing, the normal chaos is multiplied by ten.

The latest is the case of Kamran Akmal. Kamran, by any cricketing reckoning, had a shocker in this context, it sounds like he played in a surprisingly bad way

behind the stumps at Sydney. However, it now appears possible that in spite of the PCB explicitly flying Sarfaraz Ahmed over to Australia so that he could replace Kamran, that might not happen for the third Test.